Quick video, quick post. A reader asked, “What do the other kids at your center do when you are working on letter formation with an individual student?” Three things: keep working on their own name, sit quietly if they are already finished, or write their name a second (or third) time.
I am trying to be more explicit about what I am teaching and why. It goes along with our school’s commitment to posting learning targets. I am not going to waste my time writing out and explaining learning targets at this point in the kindergarten year, but I can start by verbalizing this information. I may or may not have remembered to do this with this particular group. Also, just a reminder about the progression with learning to write names: We started with plain white paper, full sheets. This week they have to write their name in a smaller area but still with no lines. Next week you’ll see baselines on the phonics practice sheets and we’ll start talking about “bumping the lines” (setting letters on a line). My teammate and I always have a goal of students writing their names as close to perfect as possible—including correct letter formation—by the end of the sixth week of school.
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